The Rake

BEAUTY COMES IN ALL COLOURS

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The seductive and scantily clad women who have made the Pirelli calendar famous over the past five decades have, in the last three years, been replaced by imagery designed to develop the pin-up beyond the male gaze. The latest calendar, of which a selection of photographs has been released, is its most challenging yet,

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